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Command Index

Every player command in Rogue, grouped by what you are trying to do.

This is the complete list of commands available to players, read from the command files the server actually loads rather than from any hand-kept list. Builder and administrator commands are not included.

Each command is listed once, in the category that best describes what it is for. Where a command is covered in more detail elsewhere in this section, its name links through. Many commands accept arguments that are not shown here; help <command> in the game gives the full syntax for any of them.

A note on abbreviations. The full name of a command always works, and that is what is written here. Short forms such as i for inventory are expanded by the input parser before dispatch, so they are conveniences rather than separate commands.

Movement and Exploration#

Command What it does
go Moves you in a direction or into a named place.
look Examines your surroundings, an item, or a creature.
glance Shows the room name, exits and occupants without the full description.
enter Steps into a portal, doorway or other special entrance.
climb Climbs up, down, into or through something in the room.
jump Jumps into, over, off or onto something.
swim Swims in a direction or into a named place, if your race is able.
fly Flies in a direction or into a named place, at the cost of stamina.
crawl Moves while sitting or lying down, at the cost of stamina.
drive Moves a vehicle you are sitting inside.
ride Moves the creature you are mounted on.
mount Mounts a creature you have befriended.
dismount Gets down from the creature you are riding.
befriend Tries to win a creature over so that it can be mounted.
abandon Releases a creature from your companionship.
lead Helps a creature that is already trying to follow you.
stop Ends an activity such as fishing or fighting.
sit Changes your posture to sitting, on the ground or on furniture.
stand Stands up from sitting, kneeling or lying down.
kneel Changes your posture to kneeling.
lie Lies down on the ground or on a bed.
wake Rouses you from sleep.
rest Sits and recovers health, magic and stamina quickly.
sink Stops swimming and lets you sink.
position Reports your posture or that of another creature.
stealth Toggles silent movement, which costs stamina and requires stealth skill.
remember Recalls the last four directions you travelled.
compass Points the Tideglass Compass toward a landmark and names the way to walk.
minimap Toggles the small map drawn with each room description.
map Shows a simple map of your location and its surroundings.
peer Looks into an adjacent room without entering it.
search Searches the room or an object for hidden exits, items and secrets.
listen Listens to the room, or concentrates on one object.
smell Smells the room, or concentrates on one object.
taste Tastes the air, or a particular item.
touch Touches an object to judge its texture.
feel Feels an object for textural detail that sight alone misses.
board Boards a ship docked in your room.
purchase Buys a ship at a dock, or lists the types on offer.
listships Shows the ships you have in drydock.
retrieve Brings one of your drydocked ships to the dock you are standing on.
repair Repairs a ship that has been retrieved to a dock.

Combat#

Command What it does
attack Begins combat with a creature using your wielded weapons or fists.
melee Engages a target in melee, which makes flight harder for both of you.
target Sets the creature your blows and abilities are directed at.
consider Judges how dangerous a creature would be to fight.
xa Shows a descriptive health reading for your target or another creature.
flee Tries to escape combat through a random available exit.
ignore Stops attacking one creature or all creatures.
threat Shows the threat table and who each defender is watching.
enemies Lists the creatures that currently bear you ill will.
dps Toggles numerical damage values on combat messages.
style Views or changes your fighting style and shows its mastery.
cast Casts a spell you have learned.
shoot Fires a loaded ranged weapon at a target or in a direction.
bump Tries to shove a creature into an adjacent room.
dress Enters social mode, where others see your clothing rather than armour.
undress Enters combat mode, where your armour and weapons show and protect.
dispel Ends a magical effect currently running on you.
loot Loots a corpse and announces the results to your group.
lootall Loots every corpse in the room at once for your group.
bury Buries a corpse, dropping its contents on the floor first.

Character and Progression#

Command What it does
score Shows your character overview in a bordered panel.
summary Shows detailed stats, regeneration, armour class and resistances.
stat Shows your six core attributes.
hp Shows current and maximum health, spell and endurance points.
buffs Lists the buffs and debuffs currently running on you.
status Shows the conditions and status effects active on your character.
body Reports your overall health status in words.
level Shows your level and the experience needed for the next one.
xp Shows experience earned today, from your last fight, and toward the next level.
advance Spends experience to gain a level at a guild trainer.
approvelevel Approves a guild member past one of the tier gates at levels 25, 50, 75 and 100.
remort Shows the remort class tree that opens at level 100.
skills Lists your guild and class abilities.
powers Lists your guild and class abilities, including advanced powers.
power Shows the same ability list as powers.
passives Shows your unlocked passive abilities and equips up to two of them.
talents Shows the four talent categories and spends talent points in them.
achievements Shows the Chronicle, the record of deeds your character has earned.
quest Manages quests, showing what is available and accepting or turning in tasks.
quests Lists the quests you have already completed.
rep Shows your six reputation indicators.
faction Shows your standing with the organised factions of the world.
race Shows your racial abilities.
join Joins a class guild, or accepts a pending group invitation.
accept Accepts a pending guild invitation.
decline Refuses a pending guild invitation.
guild Explains your guild and shows its membership and powers.
granks Lists your guild's members and ranks, online and offline.
guildranks Lists all recorded guild members with their current ranks.
ginduct Invites a player into your guild, for guildmasters.
guildinduct Invites a player into your guild, for guildmasters.
gexile Removes a member from your guild and returns them to Explorer.
guildexile Removes a member from your guild, with a confirmation step.
gpromote Promotes a guild member by one rank.
guildpromote Promotes a guild member by one rank.
gdemote Demotes a guild member by one rank.
guilddemote Demotes a guild member by one rank.
gscout Finds online players who are eligible to join your guild.
guildscout Finds online players who are eligible to join your guild.
gsetranks Renames your guild's rank tiers.
guildsetranks Renames your guild's rank tiers.
admittance Manages the admittances a player needs before they can join your guild.
gtitle Sets the custom title shown beside your name in the guild listing.
title Views or sets the title you wear.
surname Sets or clears your surname.
describe Opens an editor for the description others see when they look at you.
choosebackground Chooses the permanent background that describes your heritage.
tattoo Views or removes the tattoo shown when someone looks at you.
analyze Reads the health, level, class and race of everything in the room, once a day at intelligence 50.
doorbash Smashes a locked door open in one action, once a day at strength 50.
foresight Grants a minute of foresight, once a day at wisdom 50.
ironlung Grants two minutes of held breath, once a day at constitution 50.
surestep Grants a minute of sure footing, once a day at agility 50.
unspoken Grants two minutes of unspoken presence, once a day at charisma 50.
pressluck Presses your luck for a full day, once a day at luck 50.
assassinranks Lists the assassin guild's members by rank.
bardranks Lists the bard guild's members by rank.
clericranks Lists the cleric guild's members by rank.
diplomatranks Lists the Diplomat guild's members by rank.
explorerranks Lists the Explorer guild's members by rank.
fighterranks Lists the Fighter guild's members by rank.
healerranks Lists the healer guild's members by rank.
mageranks Lists the mage guild's members by rank.
merchantranks Lists the merchant guild's members by rank.
necromancerranks Lists the Necromancer guild's members by rank.
paladinranks Lists the Paladin guild's members by rank.
rangerranks Lists the Ranger guild's members by rank.
rogueranks Lists the Rogue guild's members by rank.
thiefranks Lists the Thief guild's members by rank.
vampireranks Lists the Vampire guild's members by rank.
warriorranks Lists the Warrior guild's members by rank.

Items and Inventory#

Command What it does
inventory Lists everything you carry, with the index numbers other commands accept.
ii Lists only loose items, hiding worn and wielded gear.
worn Lists your equipped and wielded items with their inventory numbers.
gear Shows your wielded weapons and worn equipment arranged by slot.
equipment Shows the same slot-by-slot equipment display as gear.
cgear Shows the clothing you have equipped.
get Picks items up from the room or out of a container.
drop Drops carried items, or a pile of coins, on the ground.
give Hands an item to a player or an NPC in the room.
put Places items into a container in your inventory or in the room.
remove Takes off a worn item, or takes items out of a container.
wear Puts on armour or clothing, one piece or all of it at once.
wield Wields a weapon in your primary hand.
offwield Wields a weapon in your offhand.
offhand Wields a small offhand-designated weapon in your offhand.
unwield Stops wielding a weapon.
equip Equips an item by name or inventory number, wielding or wearing as appropriate.
ready Wears all your armour and wields one weapon in a single step.
unready Removes every worn and wielded item at once.
gdeep Searches all your open containers and retrieves the first match.
pdeep Stashes an item in the first open container you are carrying.
r Returns the most recently retrieved item to the container it came from.
rall Returns everything on the return stack to its original container.
mv Swaps two items in your inventory by position number.
organise Sorts your inventory by category, then alphabetically within each group.
organize Sorts your inventory exactly as organise does.
stack Combines stackable items into single stacks.
unstack Breaks a stack back into individual items.
split Splits a set number of items off a stack into a second stack.
peel Peels a single item off a stack.
value Lists every loose item you carry with its sell value and a running total.
ooc Shows the out-of-character statistics of an item.
invoke Triggers the special power an item carries.
runes Shows the runes socketed into a piece of gear.
socket Inserts a rune into an empty socket, consuming the rune.
unsocket Extracts a rune from a socket for a fee in gold.
combine Combines three matching runes into one of the next form.
sets Shows your progress toward an armour set and what a finished set grants.
use Uses a magical or special object such as a scroll.
apply Applies one item to another, such as a key to a lock or a salve to a wound.
activate Turns an item on, optionally against another object.
deactivate Turns an item off, optionally against another object.
install Fits a component into or onto another item.
uninstall Removes an installed component from an item.
load Loads ammunition or a charge into a weapon or device.
unload Removes ammunition or contents from an item.
open Opens a door, chest or other openable object.
close Closes a door, chest or container.
lock Locks an object with the correct key.
unlock Unlocks an object with the correct key.
knock Knocks on a door, window or other surface.
pick Picks flowers, or picks the lock on a door or chest.
light Lights an object, which may need an existing flame.
ignite Ignites a light source built into an item, weapon or piece of armour.
strike Strikes a flammable object to try to set it alight.
douse Douses a light source.
extinguish Puts out a burning object such as a torch or a lamp.
snuff Snuffs out a light source.
smoke Smokes a pipe, cigarette or other smokable item.
eat Eats food, fetching it out of your containers if it is not in hand.
drink Drinks a potion or other liquid, fetching it out of your containers if needed.
empty Empties the contents out of a vessel.
fill Fills a vessel with a substance from another container.
pour Pours a substance into another vessel, onto an object, or away.
read Reads text written on an object, if your intelligence is up to it.
show Shows an item you carry to someone in the room without handing it over.
throw Throws an object, optionally at a creature or into a container.
weigh Estimates the weight of an item you are carrying.
balance Compares the weight of two items you are holding.
judge Compares the relative worth of two items you are carrying.
equate Compares the relative worth of two items, as judge does.
poison Applies a poisoning agent to an item you are holding.
boobytrap Rigs a door or a chest with a trap.
disarm Tries to disarm a booby-trapped door or chest.
capture Captures a living creature with a trapping device.
free Frees a captured creature from a trap.
press Presses an object, or a specific part of one.
pull Pulls an object, or a specific part of one.
move Shifts or repositions an object, or a part of one.
turn Rotates an object, or turns something on or off.
swivel Rotates or spins an object, or a component on one.
rock Rocks an object back and forth, or rocks yourself if you are seated.
roll Rolls dice or another rollable object, using standard dice notation.
ring Rings a bell or another ringable object.
scratch Scratches on an object, or a specific part of one.
shake Shakes an object, or a part of one.
vault Stores and retrieves items from your hundred-slot personal vault.
armory Lists and manages the items held in an armory room.
store Puts an item from your inventory into an armory.
borrow Withdraws an item from an armory by its number.

Communication#

Command What it does
say Speaks aloud to everyone in the room, or directly to one person present.
speak Speaks to the room in a chosen language, or changes your default language.
whisper Whispers privately to someone in the same room.
shout Shouts so that rooms up to two away hear the direction it came from.
yell Yells to the area around you, carrying beyond your own room.
tell Sends a private message to a player anywhere on the MUD.
reply Replies to whoever last sent you a tell.
rtell Sends another private message to whoever you last told something to.
mail Reads your inbox, or composes a message to another player.
chat Speaks on the global chat channel.
channels Lists the channels available to you and turns them all on or off.
tune Lists the channels you hear and toggles them one at a time or all at once.
mute Mutes or unmutes channel messages, by scope or entirely.
unmuff Lets you hear a player's channel messages again.
gag Stops you speaking on channels, locally or across intermud.
hist Shows the backscroll of a communication channel or type.
last Shows the last ten messages of a communication type.
emote Puts a freeform action after your name for the room to see.
emotes Lists the soul emotes available to you, optionally filtered by prefix.
racialemotes Lists the emotes unique to your race.
gesture Gestures to one person in the room, which a few NPCs recognise.
ask Asks an NPC a question, about a topic, for an item, or to do something.
request Asks a creature for a specific item, as ask for does.
consult Consults a book, tome or other reference object.
guildverb Explains the guild channel shortcut, where your guild name is the verb.
assassin Speaks on the assassin guild channel.
bard Speaks on the bard guild channel.
cleric Routes to the cleric guild channel, though clerics speak on their faith's channel in practice.
diplomat Speaks on the Diplomat guild channel.
explorer Speaks on the Explorer guild channel.
fighter Speaks on the Fighter guild channel.
mage Speaks on the mage guild channel.
merchant Speaks on the merchant guild channel.
necromancer Speaks on the Necromancer guild channel.
paladin Routes to the Paladin guild channel, though paladins speak on their faith's channel in practice.
ranger Speaks on the Ranger guild channel.
rogue Speaks on the Rogue guild channel.
thief Speaks on the thief guild channel.
warrior Speaks on the warrior guild channel.

Group and Social#

Command What it does
group Creates, joins and runs an adventuring group, and chats to its members.
party Passes all of its arguments straight through to group.
gaccept Accepts a pending group invitation.
companion Manages your companion party of henchmen and heroes.
hero Lists, summons, equips and renames the unique heroes you have unlocked.
henchman Hires and manages generic henchmen, which scale to your level.
call Calls a hero or a henchman to join your party.
dismiss Dismisses a companion by name, or all of them at once.
pet Summons or dismisses a pet you own.
pets Explains pet ownership, care and the ledger that records it.
feed Feeds a pet to reduce its hunger and raise its loyalty.
water Refreshes a pet's water bowl to reduce its thirst.
groom Brushes and cleans a pet, raising its loyalty sharply.
walk Takes a pet out for exercise, restoring its energy.
play Plays with a pet for the largest single gain in loyalty.
train Drills a pet on a command, raising its training stat.
introduce Introduces yourself so that another player learns your name.
roleplay Shows whether you are ready to award a roleplay bonus.
rpbonus Awards a roleplay bonus of experience and coin to another player.
marry Joins two players in marriage.
nominate Nominates a candidate in a class election.
vote Casts your vote for a nominated candidate.
militia Opens the militia hub of members, roster, status and channel.
memploy Enlists a player into the militia as a Recruit.
mfire Dismisses a player from the militia, with a confirmation step.
mpromote Promotes a militia member by one rank.
mdemote Demotes a militia member by one rank.
marrest Arrests a player and escorts them to the militia holding cell.
mrelease Releases an arrested player from the holding cell.
mranks Shows the full militia roster or the rank hierarchy.
mpay Shows pending militia wages and the pay rates for each rank.
mtreasury Shows and manages the militia treasury.

Trade and Economy#

Command What it does
list Lists what is on offer where you stand, whether a vendor's stock, a dock's ships or an armory's shelves.
buy Buys an item from a vendor in the room.
sell Sells items to a vendor who deals in that kind of goods.
menu Shows the food and drink menu at a tavern or an inn.
foodmenu Shows the food menu where a cook or a barkeeper sells it.
drinkmenu Shows the drink menu at a tavern or a similar establishment.
donate Gives currency to a donation receptacle such as a shrine.
money Shows all the coin you are carrying, in every currency.
wealth Shows carried coin, banked savings, ectoplasm and quest points together.
deposit Deposits coins into your bank account beside a banker.
withdraw Withdraws coins from your bank account beside a banker.
exchange Converts one currency into another at a bank teller.
bankaccount Opens a bank account, or checks your current balance.
openaccount Opens a bank account at the teller in the room.
tax Shows your tax statement, effective rate and anything outstanding.
job Shows your employment record, pay rate and pending wages.
paycheck Breaks down your next paycheck into gross pay, deductions and net.
collect Collects pending wages from your employer at a bank.
repay Repays a Merchant's loan taken out against your name.
redeem Cashes a sealed letter of credit for its full face value.
release Settles a Merchant-held escrow, handing the goods to the other party.
auctions Browses live auctions, filtered by category, host, seller or closing time.
auction Shows the full detail of a single auction.
bid Places a bid on an auction in the currency you choose.
retract Withdraws your bid from an auction, within strict limits.
watch Tracks an auction so that you are told about bid activity.
unwatch Stops tracking an auction.
mybids Lists the auctions where you hold the high bid or a sealed bid.
mysales Lists the live auctions where you are the seller.
mywatches Lists the auctions you have flagged with watch.
mywins Lists the items waiting for you at the claim desk.
claim Collects a won or returned auction lot from the claim desk.
house Enters and manages your home, or visits another player's.
houses Manages every property you own, from homes to cottages and farms.
movein Moves you into a home in a housing neighbourhood.
farm Runs a farm, raising livestock, sowing fields and selling the yield.
pbuild Builds and shapes rooms inside a home or farm that you own.
decorate Customises the rooms of your player house.
invite Manages who may visit your player house.

Crafting and Gathering#

Command What it does
craft Lists recipes, inspects their requirements, and makes items from them.
recipes Browses the recipe tree without entering the crafting editor.
clevel Shows every crafting discipline with its level and experience.
glevel Shows every gathering skill with its level and experience.
prodskills Shows your production skill levels, which run from 1 to 99.
resources Shows the resource compendium and how much of each you hold.
ingredients Shows the herbs and fungi you have gathered for brewing.
gather Gathers resources from your location, or lists what is available.
scan Surveys the area for every gatherable material currently present.
chop Gathers wood by chopping.
dig Gathers buried resources by digging.
mine Gathers ore and stone by mining.
forage Gathers miscellaneous resources by foraging.
harvest Gathers herbs and plants by harvesting.
pluck Plucks feathers or down, with no tool needed.
shear Shears wool or hair, with shears in your inventory.
salvage Salvages scrap from broken gear in the area.
drawwater Draws fresh or sea water from a source.
skin Skins a corpse for leather and hide.
butcher Butchers a corpse for meat and other edible materials.
brew Brews a poison vial at an Alchemy Lab.
fish Plays the fishing mini-game, casting, reeling in and checking status.
bait Fastens bait onto a fishing pole.
trade Gives or offers gathered resources to another player.

Clan and Religion#

Command What it does
clans Explains what clans are and how one is founded.
clan Shows the clan members online, or speaks on the clan channel.
clancreate Founds a new clan, walking you through colours, ranks and name.
clanranks Lists all clan members by rank.
cranks Lists all clan members by rank, as clanranks does.
clanmanage Shows and runs the clan management options open to your rank.
clanabilities Shows the abilities your clan knows and those it may still learn.
clanlevel Shows the clan's level, honour, experience, respect and ability points.
clandecorate Reshapes the clan abode from within, for members holding the permission.
abode Carries you to your clan's abode.
cinvite Invites a player to join your clan.
caccept Accepts a pending clan invitation.
cpromote Promotes a clan member one rank toward the top.
cdemote Demotes a clan member one rank.
cexile Exiles a member from the clan.
cpardon Lifts an exile so that a former member may be initiated again.
cresign Leaves your clan for good, surrendering the insignia.
religion Shows the online members of your religion, or speaks on its channel.
rinduct Offers to induct a player into your religion.
induct Invites a player into your religion, for the High Priest or Priestess.
raccept Accepts a pending religion induction.
rdecline Declines a pending religion induction.
rpromote Promotes a member within your religion.
rdemote Demotes a member within your religion.
rexile Exiles a player from your religion.
ordain Lists the members of your religion by rank.
ordainranks Shows the ordained ranks of the faith and which class each is reserved for.
ordainpaladin Puts the oath of Kranos to a candidate, for the High Priest or Priestess.
anoint Ordains a healer into your religion as an Acolyte.
renounce Renounces your faith, with all the consequences that follow.
pray Offers a prayer to your deity, optionally at a target.
tithe Lays an offering of coin upon your god's altar.
tithes Ranks every faith in the realm by the offerings laid upon its altars.
favor Shows which god the Five Realms currently hold in highest regard.
martyr Invokes the Blood of the Martyr abilities carried by consecrated armour.

Settings and Interface#

Command What it does
settings Opens the settings menus for colours, display, tells and combat.
colors Lists every colour code, each shown in its own colour.
speakcolor Sets the colour in which you receive speech.
chancolors Toggles whether channel message content keeps its own colours.
cursefilter Turns the profanity filter on or off.
brief Toggles brief room descriptions.
commandecho Turns the echo of your last command line on or off.
screen Sets the width and height of your screen.
screenlock Stops or allows your client changing your screen size after login.
mobile Switches between mobile-friendly and default screen dimensions.
terminal Sets your terminal type by hand.
fixwrap Resets screen width and terminal type to safe defaults.
keepalive Sets how often a keepalive signal is sent to your client.
ui Installs, reloads and removes the RogueUI interface for Mudlet.
queue Runs up to ten commands in sequence, separated by semicolons.
history Shows your command history buffer and resizes it.
timezone Shows or sets the timezone used for time displays.
afk Toggles your away-from-keyboard flag.
account Links your characters under one account and holds account-wide settings.
altplay Switches which of your account's characters you are playing.
control Switches between registered alternate characters without logging out.
passwd Changes your account password.
chfn Changes the personal information others see when they finger you.
fix Clears stuck class-specific states left behind by bugs.
telnet Connects out to another computer or MUD, for members of the telnet group.
retire Permanently deletes your character after a typed confirmation.
suicide Permanently deletes your character after a password confirmation.

Information and Help#

Command What it does
help Shows help on any topic, or the general index if you name none.
faq Shows the frequently asked questions documents.
tip Requests a newbie tip, or chooses the category they are drawn from.
who Lists connected players grouped by their role in the game.
users Lists the names of the visible players who are logged in.
finger Shows the profile information a player has set for themselves.
posting Lists the players currently in an editor, on a board, or writing mail.
date Shows the real-world date and time in your timezone.
time Shows the in-game date, time and season.
calendar Shows the Rogue calendar, its months, seasons and weekdays.
nextreboot Says when the next scheduled reboot falls.
news Replays the login news, general or class-specific.
announcements Shows the most recent realm announcements.
toggles Shows the world-wide toggles, such as double experience events.
celebrations Redirects to toggles, which replaced it.
domain Shows a domain's patron, capital, climate, difficulty and level range.
mem Clears the screen and shows the MUD's memory status.
bug Reports a bug to the development team.
praise Sends praise to the development team and to an object's creator.
editpaper Writes and edits the in-game newspaper, for its staff.